Strategies for Drive Hanging or Dropping Intermittently

A drive with non-critical hardware faults may come online but hang or drop offline intermittently, making data recovery very difficult or even impossible for File Scavenger®. Some common error conditions are:

Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) errors.

Bad sector, cluster or block errors.

Hardware timeout errors.

Drive making a clicking noise.

The strategy for this scenario is to divide the recovery in two stages. First use the disk cloning program Disk Recoup™ to clone the raw data from the bad drive to a blank drive. Then use File Scavenger® to recover data from the new clone drive.

Step 1: Clone the Bad Drive to a Blank Drive

If cloning is successful, buy a license. The demo mode is used to determine if cloning is possible. In this mode the destination drive is encrypted and unusable until you buy a license to decrypt it.

Decrypting does not require cloning the bad drive again. But it may take a long time to decrypt a large drive. If the recovery is urgent, you may want to buy a license from the very beginning and clone the bad drive in licensed mode.